Databases

Databases are searchable, up-to-date indexes of journal articles and other types of information. You can use a database to find articles on a topic. Most databases are available to Curtin staff and students only.

Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788–1901 provides unique primary-source materials through first-person accounts, including letters, diaries, and narratives, drawn from archives. You are able to cross-search personal writings from the time and explore content by writer, region, audience, personal and historical event, and environmental features including fauna and flora, and more. Supporting material such as images, maps, and photographs supplement the first-person narratives and provide additional context.

The American Economic Association's electronic database, this is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. It is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library.

Ecospecifier is a guide to eco-preferable products and materials for the construction industry, specifically targeted at the needs of decision makers and specifiers. It responds to the need for greater clarity about what is and is not 'green', for the desire to specify products that will lead to better indoor air quality and wellbeing, and for the growing body of public and private sector clients who want to save energy, water, and use sustainable resources.

The EDGE database, produced by Information Edge, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles that provide international coverage on management, environmental, packaging and building topics. Subject coverage: Strategic and financial management techniques; human resources; Asian economies; energy efficiency; recycling; packaging trends and methods for glass, plastic, metal and paper; and building products and trends. Packaging issues for end use markets such as food and beverages are also included.

Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers.The collection contains teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library.

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

Informit EduTV is an online TV streaming resource for Australian tertiary institutions. Informit EduTV makes it easy for lecturers and students to find and instantly watch relevant television content. 10,000 programs including documentaries, drama and series complemented with study guides and articles are accessible via computer, tablet or smartphone.

Emerald indexes and provides the full articles for peer reviewed journals in the fields of management, information science and engineering. Also provides selected access to book series in business, management and social sciences.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library.

Australian Engineering Database (ENGINE), produced by the Institution of Engineers, Australia, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on Australian engineering information, particularly information published by the Institution since 1980. Available via Informit.

Engineered Materials Abstracts (EMA) covers polymers, ceramics, and composites in a variety of structural and other advanced applications. Citations regarding the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of these materials have been taken from 1,300 journals, plus dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books indexed by expert editors from Materials Information. Begun in 1986, Engineered Materials Abstracts is an electronic database containing Ceramics, Composites and Polymers subfiles.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

A complete digital archive of entertainment industry magazines. With a focus on the United Kingdom and the United States, it covers film, television, radio, performing arts and popular music over the entire 20th Century. Each magazine is in full-text format, so can be browsed cover-to-cover. Content includes reviews, interviews, charts and industry news.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library.

The US federal government issues hundreds of environmental impact statements each year - and this one resource provides detailed abstracts of all of those statements, also indexing them for easy reference. EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-relased environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. Coverage is from 1985 to present day and includes the following major areas: air transportation; defense programs; energy; hazardous substances; land use; parks, refuges and forests; research and development; roads and railroads; urban and social programs; water.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

Essential Science Indicator offers a means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, ESI helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions.

The collection is a resource for the study of human culture and behaviour. It covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential anthropologists, ethnographers and documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students on all campuses, and also through remote access.

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